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    A Journey of One Thousand Miles: the Story of Ruth and Naomi
    A Journey of One Thousand Miles: the Story of Ruth and Naomi
    A Journey of One Thousand Miles: the Story of Ruth and Naomi
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    A Journey of One Thousand Miles: the Story of Ruth and Naomi

    By D. Avraham

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    Ruth and Orpah were twin sisters, royal daughters of Moab. They married two brothers, the sons of Elimelekh and Naomi, leaders from Judea. Their life was idyllic, until the brothers suddenly died leaving the three women, Naomi, Ruth and Orpah, alone and without support in the world. While Orpah took steps that would lead to a life of degradation, Ruth and Naomi took their own steps towards reparation and redemption. This is the retelling of their journey, as told in the Book of Ruth, and interwoven with legends and traditions of the ancient sages.

    This novella is an abridged version of part one of the Foundation Stone, the story of the famous battle between Ruth's and Orpah's descendents: Dawid and Goliyath.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. Avraham
    Release dateJun 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311976789
    A Journey of One Thousand Miles: the Story of Ruth and Naomi
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    D. Avraham

    D. Avraham is the pen name for the author. He lives with his family in the Hebron Hills of Israel, the stomping ground of his hero, Dawid (King David), and the subject of his celebrated novel. Before immigrating to Israel from Cleveland, Ohio, he was a freelance writer for the Daily News Herald, The Cleveland Jewish News, and other publications. He was also a weekly columnist for New York’s Jewish Press.

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      A Journey of One Thousand Miles - D. Avraham

      A Journey of A Thousand Miles

      The Story of Ruth and Naomi:

      A Novella

      Based on the Biblical story, Midrash, and Tradition

      excerpted from

      The Shepherd King: Foundation Stone

      D. Avraham

      Copyright © 5768 (2008) D. Avraham

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      ISBN: 978-965-91360-0-1

      Har Hebron

      A SHEPHERD KING BOOK

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      A Beith David Publication

      Har Hebron, Israel

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      CONTENTS

      Separate Ways

      Homecoming

      Harvesting

      Birth Bangs

      The Journey Continues

      Glossary

      Pronunciation Guide

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I want to acknowledge and thank my teachers, my parents, and most importantly the Almighty, for giving me the honor of bringing this story to print. Iwould also like to thank you, the reader, for giving purpose to my body of work. May I continue to serve you with enlightening and entertaining stories.

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      Separate Ways

      The Month of Aviv, in the year 345 from the Exodus

      The Fields of Moav

      The winds came with the setting of the sun, which burst forth as glowing red orb impacted against the horizon; powerful gusts jetted across the desert plains. When the winds reached the village, their force increased with shrieks and wailing as they buffeted the stone homes. At what remained of a small estate, now in disrepair, their howl mingled with the wail of the three women huddled on a goat’s skin in the bowels of one of the low stone structures on the hill. Ultimately, the women’s wailing was no match for the winds, which drown their anguish in a torrent of heavenly fury. Even inside their home, the sound of their voices was almost lost.

      Oh daughters … oh, my daughters, cried the older of the women, her words breaking, a mix of anger and despair. The world. The world. We’re drowning in the attribute of strict justice. Her face and cry turned heavenward, stronger, but filled with bitterness and pain, Where is your mercy, Holy One? Her cry rose to a crescendo, Have pity! Have pity! The last syllables swallowed by her renewed weeping. Dear God, have pity.

      The old woman’s cries broke against the cracked ceiling, and sent the three women into another fit of wailing and tears. The two younger women had just buried their husbands, the sons of the older woman, both struck down suddenly with an illness that broke their strong young bodies within a week, albeit taking another fifty to finish its task. Before they had retired of their bodies completely, what was left of the small estate became as emaciated as the men's bodies.

      During their illness there hadn’t been time to reflect on the worsening of their lot, but now that their bodies had been buried and their souls departed, the women, the mother Naomi especially, gave release to the frustration and despair that had camped at their door. The death of her sons was only the latest chapter of a turn of fate that had brought her from being part of one of the most esteemed families in Yehudah to a poor childless widow adrift in a foreign land.

      Tears choked the older woman. She felt as if it were the hands of the Almighty at her throat. Yet, though she would still deny it, a part of her bitterness was directed towards her own hands that helped mold this bitter fate. As tears welled anew, she tried to push the memories away, but they refused. Dancing at the edge of her mind, teasing, taunting her, reminding her; those memories stayed close enough to her consciousness to torment her. In her heart, she knew that she had taken those first steps that led her to this wilderness, to this oblivion.

      It was over

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